I remember visiting Taipei a year back, walking past the city’s north gate to find the chain’s first property in Asia under construction. That was fresh from my stay at the citizenM New York Time Square months before where I had pretty good memories of ... ( read original story ...)
Google has completed its acquisition of HTC’s smartphone business, which cost more than $1 billion
Google has announced it completed the acquisition process of Taiwanese device maker HTC; or at least its smartphone division. The deal, valued at $1.1 billion (£785 million), will see some 2,000 HTC engineers join the ranks of the search giant. ( read original story ...)
The Pixel 3 phones will be designed and engineered in Taiwan
Secondly, it gives Google a vast new engineering base in Taipei, Taiwan, where HTC is located. A crucial element of the acquisition is the power it will give Google to design its own consumer hardware as well as high-end, special objective chips. ( read original story ...)
FPC Announces New Integrations With Japanese and Taiwanese OEMs
New smartphones from major Japan- and Taiwan-based OEMs feature Fingerprint Cards fingerprint sensors, the company has announced. FPC hasn’t revealed the names of these clients, but indicated that the integrations include its FPC1035 and FPC1272 sensor ... ( read original story ...)
Google closes HTC deal, welcomes smartphone innovators
Neither and both happened. September last year, Google and HTC announced a $1.1 billion deal that, among other things, would see a large chunk of the Taiwanese smartphone maker’s mobile team transfer to the mothership. Google has now announced that deal ... ( read original story ...)
Chunghwa Telecom Reports 2018 Guidance
TAIPEI, Taiwan, Jan. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. (TAIEX: 2412, NYSE: CHT) ("Chunghwa" or "the Company") today reported its guidance for 2018 on a consolidated basis. All figures were prepared in accordance with Taiwan-International ... ( read original story ...)
Qualcomm to make first payment for violating competition law in Taiwan
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc will pay T$390 million ($13.35 million), its first installment of a fine for anti-trust violations in Taiwan, the Taiwan Fair Trade ... and refused to license its technology to other industry players. Qualcomm’s fine ... ( read original story ...)
Chunghwa Telecom : Holds Taiwan 5G Alliance – CHT Pilot Team Inauguration Ceremony
TAIPEI, Taiwan, January 29, 2018 - Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. (TAIEX: 2412, NYSE: CHT) ('Chunghwa' or 'the Company') today held an inauguration ceremony for its CHT Pilot Team of the Taiwan 5G Alliance. Under the auspices of the Ministry of Economic ... ( read original story ...)
Realty transactions look up in Taiwan at last
Property transactions in Taiwan climbed 8 percent year-on-year in 2017, effectively ending three consecutive years of falling volumes, reported the Ministry of the Interior. Sales of homes, offices and shops in Taiwan numbered around 266,086 units last ... ( read original story ...)
Housing transactions in Taiwan end 3-year slump in 2017
Taipei, Jan. 27 (CNA) Transactions of residential and commercial property in Taiwan staged a rebound in 2017, ending three straight years of declines, according to the Ministry of the Interior (MOI). After transactions of homes, offices and shops in Taiwan ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan’s high-tech weapons
A recent tour at the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science & Technology -- the brains behind Taiwan's weapons program -- gave a glimpse to what high-tech warfare will entail, and what weapons Taiwan hopes to have if the unfortunate happens -- war breaks ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan researchers find key substance for brain cell regeneration
Taipei, Jan. 26 (CNA) Taiwan's National Health Research Institutes (NHRI ... a paper summarizing the team's findings and is also hoping to find a partner for the technology so that further clinical trials can be conducted and a therapeutic drug developed. ( read original story ...)
Smartphone battery explodes in Chinese man’s face after he bites it
The explosion, which occurred at an electronics store last Friday (Jan 19), happened less than a second after the man took a bite of the smartphone battery, reported Taiwan News. The episode was captured by the store's CCTV security cameras, and the video ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan smartphone sales dip lower in December
Smartphone sales in the Taiwan market slid 5.5% sequentially to 614,000 units in December 2017, as sales momentum of Apple's iPhone X and iPhone 8 devices began to slow down, according to data compiled by local retail channels. Nevertheless, Apple remained ... ( read original story ...)
97 Taiwanese arrested in eastern Europe for telecom fraud
Countries from Spain to Indonesia have agreed to deport Taiwanese scammers to China despite protests from Taipei, which says the suspects should be sent back to Taiwan for investigation and trial. Last month, China jailed 44 Taiwanese for telecom fraud ... ( read original story ...)
97 Taiwanese arrested in Europe for telecom fraud
Countries from Spain to Indonesia have agreed to deport Taiwanese scammers to China despite protest from Taipei, which says the suspects should be sent back to Taiwan for investigation and trial. Last month, China jailed 44 Taiwanese for telecom fraud ... ( read original story ...)